Fri, 20 Nov '09

Amanda Tapping’s Guilty Geek Pleasures

The Sanctuary star reveals what gets her geeky side going

You know that whackjob scientist on Fringe? He’s got nothing on Sanctuary’s Helen Magnus. We asked Amanda Tapping, the actress (and exec producer) who deftly brings her life in front of all those green screens, to give us her top guilty geek pleasures.

Midomi iPhone App
“If you’re listening to a song on the radio,” says Tapping, “and you don’t know what the song is, you can hold the phone up to it, and it will figure out what the song is. Or if you hum a few bars into the phone it will figure out what the song is. And it takes you to iTunes so you can buy the song, or to YouTube where you can see the video.”

Star Trek: The Next Generation
“If I’m flipping and it’s on, I’ll watch it. When I was doing Stargate we had John de Lancie and Marina Sirtis on our show and, yeah, I totally geeked out. Marina actually came and had lunch in my trailer and I was having a total fangirl moment. She was honest and great and fun and I was, like, ‘Oh … my … god.’ She left the trailer and I called my twin brother and said, ‘You’re not gonna believe who I just had lunch with.’”

Alien
“In comes this woman who is so brave and so strong and so smart and sexy without being, you know, Barbarella. And so I geek out over that. If I ever met Sigourney Weaver I’d probably faint.”

Sanctuary airs Fridays at 10 pm Eastern on SyFy.